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Yesterday I grabbed a few pictures of fallen trees off the internet. In the next few days, hundreds will appear and many will inadvertently reveal that the trees that fell are rotted on the interior.
[update: video added at the end!]
It’s an ash tree.
Three others are barely hanging onto other branches further towards the road.
When they fall you can see just how covered the high branches are with lichen.
I climbed over the big ash with my umbrella to take a walk up to the village.
Several houses have generators. I had no idea they are so noisy.
Having the power go out is annoying but at least you used to get a wonderful natural quiet.
Now the air is filled with the racket and stink of generators. People have figured out that we can expect long periods without power from trees downed in storms. They just haven’t figured out why so many trees fall. Here’s one neighbors yard – his trees are so laden with lichen they look ghostly pale.
When I got into the village I started seeing fallen trees right away.
This center of this maple was black with rot.
The leaves have the classic stippled look of stomates damaged from absorbing air pollution.
They should have turned a bright orange, or perhaps red.
My friend Fawn was even more unlucky than me – her neighbor’s tree landed on her house, breaking windows.
The insides of the branches were rotted.
But the most spectacular scene was further up in Oldwick in front of the pastor’s house.
I should have grabbed one of the many gawkers to have them stand next to the tree for a picture because it’s hard to convey how enormous it is.
The entire thing was covered in lichen.
The leaves were also damaged from ozone.
The center of the root system was black with rot and the flat white shreds are some sort of fungus.
The oak that is still standing lost about half of its trunk.
The little branches that came down had lichen AND fungus.
The interior is clearly rotted.
2012-10-30 11:21:36
Source: http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2012/10/unpredictable.html